LD moved the 'Haynes' Prometheus manual out of the way of the bowl and exposed a datapad. 'funny', he thought, as he fed the one ONE goldfish. Why is sheff reading about 'Oxidative damage in Mitochondrial Haplotypes'?.........

Sheffield was in the office next door on the blower to maintenance: "I dont care IF Truncate is AWOL, he was an officer, and if he says he wanted all the roids visible from this office's windows painted BLACK, damn well finish the job!"........

Meanwhile, three floors below, an orderly approached a thinly clad implant-less Serco man. "Excuse me, 'Mr A-Dawg', but our commander has ordered me to take a blood test...."